I am SHOCKED to report that after six years, four months, thirteen days AND 2949 posts, the beloved thread Test Pattern (The W) has FINALLY gone inactive long enough to get automatically closed.

...which is something of an irony, as I have an announcement about our banners! Well, I could say nothing, but I would hate for you to get even more confused than normal when it comes to our banners, so consider this a pre-emptive strike.

I am taking a long vacation to the home base (Modesto, CA) for the next couple weeks, and because there is a good chance I won't be inclined at all to find Sharks photos featuring Symantec's logo, or funny basketball photos, or other questionably legal appropriations in real time for 24 hours, I've whipped up a bunch of logos based purely on me going to Google Images and saying "hey, whatcha got that's exactly 760 pixels by 150 pixels?" ...which turns out to be a whole lot more than I ever expected. So please enjoy some truly random stuff at the top of the board for a while and I'll be back to coming up with banners about 15 minutes too late by...some time shortly after my birthday, I reckon.

I can't believe this finally happened. It has been close before, I believe at least once it got to the final day of being open before being locked, only for someone to make a post to keep it alive. It's the end of an era.

That was an insanely long game. And it's rare that I can't make it to the end, but I couldn't. I look forward to many more banners with my beloved Hawks

We'll be back right after order has been restored here in the Omni Center.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy - Swift

How come Chris Andersen has two fingers up in that Heat celebration picture? He played about 600 minutes in the regular season and 300 minutes in the playoffs. He wasn't on the team last season. Put your damn fingers down, dumbass. And Fizdale is annoying as well. Boo Heat.

Originally posted by piemanHow come Chris Andersen has two fingers up in that Heat celebration picture? He played about 600 minutes in the regular season and 300 minutes in the playoffs. He wasn't on the team last season. Put your damn fingers down, dumbass. And Fizdale is annoying as well. Boo Heat.

Originally posted by piemanHow come Chris Andersen has two fingers up in that Heat celebration picture? He played about 600 minutes in the regular season and 300 minutes in the playoffs. He wasn't on the team last season. Put your damn fingers down, dumbass. And Fizdale is annoying as well. Boo Heat.

Today's hilarious and timely NBA graphic remains safely nestled on my laptop at home where I can't get at it. I'll post it tomorrow when it will be 24 hours' less funny. In its place is another graphic of the NBA Champions. Sorry you got the broken icon for almost 11 hours.

Originally posted by CRZToday's hilarious and timely NBA graphic remains safely nestled on my laptop at home where I can't get at it. I'll post it tomorrow when it will be 24 hours' less funny. In its place is another graphic of the NBA Champions. Sorry you got the broken icon for almost 11 hours.